I first heard of St. Anthony's foundation through an announcement over the p.a. at my high school. Since I needed to complete 100 service hours before graduation, I decided to take on this volunteer opportunity. I will admit I wasn't thrilled of the thought of volunteering with homeless people because of the fact that I had heard many terrible stories from T.V., newspapers, and seen how they act first hand on the streets. But I set those thoughts aside and went on volunteering at this organization. I had many negative thoughts about the whole idea at first but after many visits my perspective on the organization and especially on the people that they help, was dramatically changed.
             Starting from the first day there I was very scared because of the fact that I had so many negative images I had labeled them with. But surprisingly within minutes those images disappeared because of the way the homeless people made me feel. My basic duties were to serve food onto plates and sometimes go from table to table to spark conversations with homeless people. I had never seen so many smiling faces let alone from people who don't have a lot to smile about. After one visit to the soup kitchen, my visits there became weekly, meaning up to 3 times a week.
             Worldview is a personal insight about reality and meaning, often termed a "life understanding." Each of us has a worldview. Much of any person's worldview is shaped by his or her culture and upbringing. My worldview before this experience was very limited. My thoughts on life were we had to live everyday as if it were our last and also if I ever had a problem I always had someone to help me like my mom or my sisters. Its obvious my worldview in general wasn't anything serious, due to the fact that I was only 15 years old and I had experienced a lot of things on my own. Never did I think life was about giving back I just thought life was about receiving. T...